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More than Enough

As I sat in front of a generator-powered fan on the ground floor of our house…

I thought about how miserable I was.

No electricity. No AC. No internet.

My mom had to dump everything that was in the fridge and most of the stuff in our kitchen freezer.

I was hot and grumpy. Nothing was good enough…

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A Prayer of Blessing

As the point person for a community of people who are all seniors or have some sort of physical impairment...

the building manager reached out to Matthew 25 Outreach Center with a phone call when she heard we were doing a special produce distribution as part of the Minority Health Fair in Mansfield.

Originally, we had planned to NOT do deliveries for this event because we knew the quantity of produce we were scheduled to receive was much lower than a typical distribution, and this was a special event that we wanted to be present on-site for the entire time. However, when the need for food calls, we answer...

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Charging Onward

We knew the weather was going to be bitterly cold on produce distribution Saturday morning (Jan. 7, 2017)...

and contemplated if we should postpone the food distribution until the following Saturday, when the weather forecast was to be much warmer.

Then the phone rang...

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